Blink-182 postpone tour: Band to record new album instead

After six years of waiting for Blink-182 to go back on tour, fans will have to wait a little longer.

The pop-punk band -- who reunited in 2009 -- have postponed their summer 2011 tour dates until next year in order to complete recording their next album, their first in eight years.

"It is with heavy hearts that we have to announce our planned 2011 European summer tour has been rescheduled," Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker said in a statement on the band's website. "When we booked the tour last year, we were confident that we would have the new album out before the summer. Turns out we were mistaken as the album is taking longer than we thought and won't be out till later this year."

Blink-182 -- who split in 2005 because DeLonge wanted to spend more time with his family -- had planned to preview much of the new material on the road this summer "rather than do another 'greatest hits tour,' which you all saw last summer," they said in their statement. "The three of us are working very hard to do what we set out to do when we re-formed, get a new Blink-182 album recorded."

The new album will be the first since the band's 2003 self-titled release, which produced four singles and sold more than 2 million copies.